Parents, don't you just feel righteously smug when you can take the kids to something that is educational, but they think they're just having fun?

Car club members, muscle car junkies and motorheads have three choices of shows this weekend. Whether you're into antique cars, muscle cars or European imports, there's a show for you.

Put on your favorite Halloween costume and get ready for some high-flying family fun on Saturday, Oct. 26, from noon to 6 p.m. when Spooktacular Sculptures in the Sky is held at the Sculpture Fields at Montague Park, 1800 Polk St.

Visitors can immerse themselves in years past when the 6th Cavalry Museum holds its Living History Day on Saturday, Oct. 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.

I tried to watch it. I really did.

The third weekend of October means Alabama-Tennessee game for football fans. But for festival fans, it's time for a road trip to Powell's Crossroads to Ketner's Mill Country Fair.

The Chattanooga Zoo is holding its most spooktacular event of the year, Boo in the Zoo, on Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 18-19 and 25-26.

The event has been postponed until April 4, 2020, due to rain.

Foodies, you can eat your way across the nation and never leave town when the first Flavored Nation comes to Chattanooga this weekend.

OK, all you Eggheads, it's show-and-tell time Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Collegedale Commons.

The Humane Educational Society will host the 17th annual Paws in the Park on Saturday, Oct. 19, at Ross's Landing beginning at 10 a.m.

This weekend's dozen festivals include one new event and a worthy list of established events that offer something to interest history buffs, quilters, crafters and children.

Each week during the month of October, the Tennessee Aquarium will highlight weirdly wonderful animals, such as the tomato frog.

Do you love a good jump-scare? Things that go bump in the dark?

What separates the inaugural Chattanooga MotorCar Festival from other car shows that roll through Chattanooga?

Stars of the classic car and racing worlds will take part in the inaugural Chattanooga MotorCar Festival this weekend.

A first-time tour and an encore tour inside two homes at Cloudland Station, a gated mountain valley community located 20 minutes from downtown Chattanooga, are set for Saturday, Oct. 12.

What happens when you combine comedians with scientists?

Wine Over Water marks its 25th anniversary this weekend. It's grown from a unique one-evening wine-tasting on the Walnut Street Bridge into a six-day festival that offers off-the-bridge food-and-wine pairings leading up to the main event on the bridge.

With 22 events on tap this weekend, there is a festival for every interest: CultureFest, history fairs, fine-art shows, Oktoberfests, community and church events. Here are four picks for the weekend:

Hair-raising Halloween fun awaits boys and ghouls at Lake WinnepeSpookah, the seasonal haunting of Lake Winnepesaukah amusement park in Rossville, Georgia.

For more than 25 years, Bill Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television. Never one to mince words, his political incorrectness is as polarizing as it is applauded.

Artist/muralist Kevin Bate, perhaps best known for murals he has painted around Chattanooga, including the "Fallen Five" on McCallie Avenue, will present "Perception is 9/10s of the Law" on Friday, Oct. 4, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Chattanooga WorkSpace, 302 W. Sixth St.